Fast networks and low-cost processors are making distributed systems for real-time applications attractive from a simple cost-of-goods perspective. However, the complexity of the communications code ...

If you listen to enough conference talks, vendor pitches, and analyst pronouncements, you can be forgiven for assuming every organization on the planet now can sense and respond, in real time, to ...

Modern motion systems demand ultra-fast deterministic communication with precise multi-axis synchronization. So, engineers are turning to realtime Ethernet-based industrial protocols. Realtime motion ...

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Applications and systems exist at the edge, in the data center, in a bevy of clouds, and in user departments. IT is called upon to manage all of them. But is this management doable, and how can IT ...